THE PLAN

The Museum

The charitable aims of the VC Trust fall into 2 main categories,
firstly to restore the final resting places of VC recipients not in
the care of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

Secondly to educate the public as their lives and citation
details ( why they were awarded a VC). The creation of a museum
meets our second charitable aim and income from the museum will
cover the first.

Progress

Now we have secured the premises, we are busy building our
collection and organising the museum infrastructure and display
areas.

We have registered with the Arts Council and are currently
listed as 'Working Towards' Accreditation.

Our Collection

How you can help

Below is a very small selection of some of the items we
have acquired over the last twelve months. We now need to develop
and build our collection of military items to allow the story of
the Valorous Few to be told.

Items do not have to be VC related or have any connection with a
VC ( although we would be very keen to accept into our collection
any VC related items ) Our collection is used as props to help tell
the story of the men behind the VC and to give a better understand
of the conditions and situations they had to endure. We are looking
for any military items, old or new, large or small gifted or on
loan. From something as small as a cap badge to as big as military
vehicles and aircraft, we would be extremely happy to add these to
our collection for the public to enjoy and to learn from.

We do not own any VC medals belonging to a recipient, any VC
on display is a replica.

All ordnance within the collection is certified free from
explosives and has been secured from reputable sources. All
firearms at the museum are replicas or are deactivated to new
spec.